Mindfulness Exercises, with Sean Fargo

Sean Fargo
  • 5.0 (73)
  • Mental Health
  • Semiweekly

Mindfulness and meditation for everyday life — and for the people who teach it. Expect grounded guided meditations, evidence‑informed tools, and candid conversations with leading voices in the field. Hosted by Sean Fargo — former Buddhist monk, founder of MindfulnessExercises.com, and a certified Search Inside Yourself instructor—each episode blends compassion, clarity, and real‑world application for practitioners, therapists, coaches, educators, and wellness professionals. What you’ll find:• Guided practices: breath awareness, body scans, self‑compassion, sleep, and nervous‑system regulation  • Teacher tools: trauma‑sensitive language, sequencing, and ethical foundations for safe, inclusive mindfulness  • Expert interviews with renowned teachers and researchers (e.g., Sharon Salzberg, Gabor Maté, Byron Katie, Rick Hanson, Ellen Langer, Judson Brewer)  • Clear takeaways you can use today—in sessions, classrooms, workplaces, and at home Updated 2-3x weekly. Follow the show, try this week’s practice, and share one insight in a review to help others discover the podcast. Explore more resources and training at MindfulnessExercises.com and the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification.

  1. 8h ago

    Guided Meditation: Gentle Awareness

    We guide a short practice to arrive together by feeling the feet on the ground, the body on the seat, and the breath moving naturally.  We stay close to physical sensation and learn to meet whatever shows up with gentle, caring awareness, including strong emotions felt in the body.  • grounding attention in contact points and breathing  • scanning the body with a gentle sense of care  • noticing pleasant, unpleasant and neutral sensations  • softening tension in the face, shoulders, belly and hands  • sensing emotions as physical experience in head, heart and gut  • finding refuge in gentle, loving awareness  • reorienting slowly with deep breaths and small movements  CERTIFY TO TEACH MINDFULNESS Teach mindfulness with confidence and skill — without self-doubt, fear of judgment, or imposter syndrome. Our internationally accredited certification is for therapists, coaches, yoga teachers, educators, and helping professionals. Accredited by the IMMA and CPD; endorsed by Gabor Maté and Rick Hanson. → https://mindfulnessexercises.com/certification/ NEW HERE? START FREE  Explore 3,000+ free guided meditations, scripts, and worksheets — for your own practice or to share with the people you teach. → https://mindfulnessexercises.com/free-mindfulness-exercises/ ENJOYING THE PODCAST?  Follow the show in your favorite app and leave a quick rating or review. It takes a moment, and it genuinely helps more teachers and practitioners find these conversations. ABOUT THE SHOW Mindfulness Exercises with Sean Fargo is a practical, grounded mindfulness podcast for people who want meditation to actually help in real life. Hosted by Sean Fargo — a former Buddhist monk, mindfulness teacher, and founder of MindfulnessExercises.com — the show explores how mindfulness can support mental health, emotional regulation, trauma sensitivity, chronic pain, leadership, creativity, and meaningful work. Each episode offers a mix of: ...

  2. 3d ago

    What If Burnout Is A Values Problem

    We explore how perception is filtered by what we value most and why the right questions can change our experience of the same reality. Dr John Demartini connects values, judgment, and purpose to practical self-mastery, then shows how alignment can dissolve burnout and unlock long-term drive.  • how sensory input becomes a personal “model of the world” shaped by values  • using quality questions to reframe experience and neutralise emotional charge  • the is versus ought conflict and how social pressure clouds real priorities  • judging others as a clue to projection, injection, and moral hypocrisy  • objective indicators of values through space, time, energy, money, discipline, goals, learning, and inspiration  • why values alignment improves efficiency, creativity, and intrinsic motivation  • burnout as a fantasy of a one-sided life and flow as support plus challenge  • what the Breakthrough Experience is and how the Demartini Method reframes setbacks  • Dr Demartini’s story of rebuilding learning and speech through daily practice, metrics, and a guiding vision  CERTIFY TO TEACH MINDFULNESS Teach mindfulness with confidence and skill — without self-doubt, fear of judgment, or imposter syndrome. Our internationally accredited certification is for therapists, coaches, yoga teachers, educators, and helping professionals. Accredited by the IMMA and CPD; endorsed by Gabor Maté and Rick Hanson. → https://mindfulnessexercises.com/certification/ NEW HERE? START FREE  Explore 3,000+ free guided meditations, scripts, and worksheets — for your own practice or to share with the people you teach. → https://mindfulnessexercises.com/free-mindfulness-exercises/ ENJOYING THE PODCAST?  Follow the show in your favorite app and leave a quick rating or review. It takes a moment, and it genuinely helps more teachers and practitioners find these conversations. ABOUT THE SHOW Mindfulness Exercises with Sean Fargo is a practical, grounded mindfulness podcast for people who want meditation to actually help in real life. Hosted by Sean Fargo — a former Buddhist monk, mindfulness teacher, and founder of MindfulnessExercises.com — the show explores how mindfulness can support mental health, emotional regulation, trauma sensitivity, chronic pain, leadership, creativity, and meaningful work. Each episode offers a mix of: ...

  3. Oct 26

    Seven Practical Ways To Use Tech Mindfully

    Your phone isn’t just a distraction, it’s a training environment. Every red badge, breaking headline, autoplay prompt, and meeting notification can condition your nervous system to live in speed, pressure, and false urgency. We sit down with Jay Vidyarthi, a mindfulness teacher and technologist and the author of Reclaim Your Mind, to map what’s really happening to our attention and how to respond with skill rather than shame. We dig into tech burnout and Zoom fatigue with a grounded lens: the problem is not only how much you do online, but how you do it. Jay shares concrete ways to protect your energy like building recovery time between high effort calls, taking a walk before presenting, stretching and hydrating mid session, and even hiding self view so you’re not staring into a mirror for hours. Then we explore a surprising idea: most of us don’t have “tech addiction” so much as an attachment style with technology. When you understand whether you relate to apps with anxiety, avoidance, or something closer to secure attachment, you can add the right mix of curiosity and structure to make digital spaces workable again. We also challenge the usual screen time advice by turning boundaries into rituals. Instead of “I should stop”, we ask “what do I love here” and build a mindful routine that creates satisfaction without bingeing. Finally, we guide a slow motion phone practice that helps you notice urges in real time and drop the rope, plus a bigger takeaway for digital wellbeing: your attention is a vote for the kind of tech ecosystem you want to exist. If this helps, subscribe, share it with a friend who feels burned out by screens, and leave a review so more people can find tools for mindful technology and reclaiming attention. CERTIFY TO TEACH MINDFULNESS Teach mindfulness with confidence and skill — without self-doubt, fear of judgment, or imposter syndrome. Our internationally accredited certification is for therapists, coaches, yoga teachers, educators, and helping professionals. Accredited by the IMMA and CPD; endorsed by Gabor Maté and Rick Hanson. → https://mindfulnessexercises.com/certification/ NEW HERE? START FREE  Explore 3,000+ free guided meditations, scripts, and worksheets — for your own practice or to share with the people you teach. → https://mindfulnessexercises.com/free-mindfulness-exercises/ ENJOYING THE PODCAST?  Follow the show in your favorite app and leave a quick rating or review. It takes a moment, and it genuinely helps more teachers and practitioners find these conversations. ABOUT THE SHOW Mindfulness Exercises with Sean Fargo is a practical, grounded mindfulness podcast for people who want meditation to actually help in real life. Hosted by Sean Fargo — a former Buddhist monk, mindfulness teacher, and founder of MindfulnessExercises.com — the show explores how mindfulness can support mental health, emotional regulation, trauma sensitivity, chronic pain, leadership, creativity, and meaningful work. Each episode offers a mix of: ...

  4. Oct 21

    Why Your Brain Stops Taking Everything Personally

    We talk with Dr. Sara Lazar about why mindfulness meditation can feel life-changing beyond lower stress and how that shift maps onto stages of ego development and perspective taking.  We connect equanimity to measurable changes in meaning making and to brain regions tied to the narrative self, compassion, and self-referential processing.  • why stress and anxiety scores miss the deeper “new perspective” change  • Piaget-style stage shifts as a model for psychological growth  • ego development from egocentric to world-centric views  • perspective taking and meaning making as the core stage change  • sentence stem testing as a window into habitual mindset  • equanimity as pausing before defending or striking back  • findings from meditators vs Kripalu yoga practitioners vs controls  • posterior cingulate cortex and networks linked to self-story and empathy  • meditation traditions and gradual awakening as a developmental path  • pandemic and science as real-world examples of stage-like reactions  CERTIFY TO TEACH MINDFULNESS Teach mindfulness with confidence and skill — without self-doubt, fear of judgment, or imposter syndrome. Our internationally accredited certification is for therapists, coaches, yoga teachers, educators, and helping professionals. Accredited by the IMMA and CPD; endorsed by Gabor Maté and Rick Hanson. → https://mindfulnessexercises.com/certification/ NEW HERE? START FREE  Explore 3,000+ free guided meditations, scripts, and worksheets — for your own practice or to share with the people you teach. → https://mindfulnessexercises.com/free-mindfulness-exercises/ ENJOYING THE PODCAST?  Follow the show in your favorite app and leave a quick rating or review. It takes a moment, and it genuinely helps more teachers and practitioners find these conversations. ABOUT THE SHOW Mindfulness Exercises with Sean Fargo is a practical, grounded mindfulness podcast for people who want meditation to actually help in real life. Hosted by Sean Fargo — a former Buddhist monk, mindfulness teacher, and founder of MindfulnessExercises.com — the show explores how mindfulness can support mental health, emotional regulation, trauma sensitivity, chronic pain, leadership, creativity, and meaningful work. Each episode offers a mix of: ...

  5. Oct 18

    A Guided Initiation Meditation For Coming Home To Your Body

    We guide a simple hand-on-chest meditation with Master Ming Tong Gu that helps us feel the truth of our own existence beyond stories and labels. We leave with a deeper sense of gratitude, wholeness, and reconnection to the body as the place where life is actually experienced.  • welcoming Master Ming Tong Gu and naming healing beyond the physical  • setting up a safe, simple posture for practice  • repeating three truths that anchor embodied mindfulness  • feeling sensation directly without mental labels  • exploring the inseparable relationship between body and soul  • sensing energetic connection with earth, universe, and life around us  • returning with open eyes, gentle movement, and renewed curiosity  CERTIFY TO TEACH MINDFULNESS Teach mindfulness with confidence and skill — without self-doubt, fear of judgment, or imposter syndrome. Our internationally accredited certification is for therapists, coaches, yoga teachers, educators, and helping professionals. Accredited by the IMMA and CPD; endorsed by Gabor Maté and Rick Hanson. → https://mindfulnessexercises.com/certification/ NEW HERE? START FREE  Explore 3,000+ free guided meditations, scripts, and worksheets — for your own practice or to share with the people you teach. → https://mindfulnessexercises.com/free-mindfulness-exercises/ ENJOYING THE PODCAST?  Follow the show in your favorite app and leave a quick rating or review. It takes a moment, and it genuinely helps more teachers and practitioners find these conversations. ABOUT THE SHOW Mindfulness Exercises with Sean Fargo is a practical, grounded mindfulness podcast for people who want meditation to actually help in real life. Hosted by Sean Fargo — a former Buddhist monk, mindfulness teacher, and founder of MindfulnessExercises.com — the show explores how mindfulness can support mental health, emotional regulation, trauma sensitivity, chronic pain, leadership, creativity, and meaningful work. Each episode offers a mix of: ...

  6. Oct 15

    What If Love Is The Whole Path

    Your meditation practice might be giving you a clue you keep missing: it can be felt in the head. Sean Fargo sits down with Liam McClintock, founder of FitMind and author of “FitMind: Four Steps to Lasting Bliss”, to talk about a surprisingly concrete way to track craving, distraction, and ease through subtle sensations in the forehead, face, and skull. We dig into how the body works like a biofeedback device, and why “release” is less about controlling thoughts and more about relaxing the system so awareness can open again.  From there, we go straight at a popular debate: mindfulness vs loving-kindness. Liam shares why, in lived practice, metta and mindfulness become hard to separate, and how a genuinely loving state naturally carries clarity, meta-awareness, and stability. We also connect this to core Buddhist training, including the Eightfold Path, right effort, and why over-efforting can quietly turn meditation into another achievement project.  We close with real-world integration after monastic life: the shock of stimulation, the value of boundaries, and the “mental diet” idea of curating what you feed the mind each day. If you care about mindfulness, meditation, neuroscience, jhana, and building a resilient mental fitness practice that actually holds up off the cushion, this conversation is for you. Subscribe, share this with a friend who’s stressed, and leave a review with your biggest takeaway. CERTIFY TO TEACH MINDFULNESS Teach mindfulness with confidence and skill — without self-doubt, fear of judgment, or imposter syndrome. Our internationally accredited certification is for therapists, coaches, yoga teachers, educators, and helping professionals. Accredited by the IMMA and CPD; endorsed by Gabor Maté and Rick Hanson. → https://mindfulnessexercises.com/certification/ NEW HERE? START FREE  Explore 3,000+ free guided meditations, scripts, and worksheets — for your own practice or to share with the people you teach. → https://mindfulnessexercises.com/free-mindfulness-exercises/ ENJOYING THE PODCAST?  Follow the show in your favorite app and leave a quick rating or review. It takes a moment, and it genuinely helps more teachers and practitioners find these conversations. ABOUT THE SHOW Mindfulness Exercises with Sean Fargo is a practical, grounded mindfulness podcast for people who want meditation to actually help in real life. Hosted by Sean Fargo — a former Buddhist monk, mindfulness teacher, and founder of MindfulnessExercises.com — the show explores how mindfulness can support mental health, emotional regulation, trauma sensitivity, chronic pain, leadership, creativity, and meaningful work. Each episode offers a mix of: ...

  7. Oct 11

    Dr. Sara Lazar: How Mindfulness Changes Pain And Fear Responses

    Pain is inevitable, but the brain’s “this is unbearable” reaction is more flexible than most of us realize.  Harvard neuroscientist Dr. Sara Lazar joins us to unpack the neural correlates of equanimity and to answer a question many meditators quietly carry: does mindfulness meditation actually protect us from pain and fear, or does it just change the story we tell ourselves?  We dig into what equanimity really means, why it is not indifference, and how an open heart can coexist with calm, clear discernment.  We walk through compelling mindfulness neuroscience from Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), including evidence that just eight weeks of practice can be associated with measurable brain changes.  We talk about the default mode network and what it has to do with rumination and mind wandering, plus why decreased stress and increased well-being may rely on different brain systems. Then we get specific about pain: mindfulness does not necessarily “turn pain off.”  Instead, experienced practitioners can show more sensory processing alongside less evaluative resistance, which lines up with a major real-world takeaway: intensity and unpleasantness are not the same thing.  From there, we move into fear of pain and anxiety, comparing mindfulness training with a structured exercise and stress education program. Both can reduce stress, but mindfulness shows a unique edge for anxiety and emotion regulation, tied to practice time and to learning processes like extinction and memory for safety.  We end by guiding a body scan you can use as an off-ramp from spiraling thoughts into grounded body awareness. If this conversation helps you, subscribe, share it with a friend, and leave a review so more people can find it. CERTIFY TO TEACH MINDFULNESS Teach mindfulness with confidence and skill — without self-doubt, fear of judgment, or imposter syndrome. Our internationally accredited certification is for therapists, coaches, yoga teachers, educators, and helping professionals. Accredited by the IMMA and CPD; endorsed by Gabor Maté and Rick Hanson. → https://mindfulnessexercises.com/certification/ NEW HERE? START FREE  Explore 3,000+ free guided meditations, scripts, and worksheets — for your own practice or to share with the people you teach. → https://mindfulnessexercises.com/free-mindfulness-exercises/ ENJOYING THE PODCAST?  Follow the show in your favorite app and leave a quick rating or review. It takes a moment, and it genuinely helps more teachers and practitioners find these conversations. ABOUT THE SHOW Mindfulness Exercises with Sean Fargo is a practical, grounded mindfulness podcast for people who want meditation to actually help in real life. Hosted by Sean Fargo — a former Buddhist monk, mindfulness teacher, and founder of MindfulnessExercises.com — the show explores how mindfulness can support mental health, emotional regulation, trauma sensitivity, chronic pain, leadership, creativity, and meaningful work. Each episode offers a mix of: ...

  8. Oct 9

    Small Internal Pivots That Can Calm Your Nervous System Today

    We talk with Dr Elisha Goldstein about how tiny internal shifts can calm chronic stress, change our choices and strengthen emotional longevity. We break down the 4R method and explore why peace can feel like simply being with what is here.  • introducing Dr Elisha Goldstein and Tiny Shifts  • chronic stress as the background “water” we stop noticing  • the 4R method: recognise, release, refocus, reinforce  • release as lowering physiological load and conserving energy  • refocus as choosing responses that support sleep, nutrition and exercise  • emotional longevity as emotional health for the long run and a driver of healthspan  • connection as biological protection and a lever for wellbeing  • peace as curiosity, allowing and ending the inner battle  • reinforce as encoding small wins into memory with body awareness and mental snapshots  • free starter bundle available at elishagoldstein.com  CERTIFY TO TEACH MINDFULNESS Teach mindfulness with confidence and skill — without self-doubt, fear of judgment, or imposter syndrome. Our internationally accredited certification is for therapists, coaches, yoga teachers, educators, and helping professionals. Accredited by the IMMA and CPD; endorsed by Gabor Maté and Rick Hanson. → https://mindfulnessexercises.com/certification/ NEW HERE? START FREE  Explore 3,000+ free guided meditations, scripts, and worksheets — for your own practice or to share with the people you teach. → https://mindfulnessexercises.com/free-mindfulness-exercises/ ENJOYING THE PODCAST?  Follow the show in your favorite app and leave a quick rating or review. It takes a moment, and it genuinely helps more teachers and practitioners find these conversations. ABOUT THE SHOW Mindfulness Exercises with Sean Fargo is a practical, grounded mindfulness podcast for people who want meditation to actually help in real life. Hosted by Sean Fargo — a former Buddhist monk, mindfulness teacher, and founder of MindfulnessExercises.com — the show explores how mindfulness can support mental health, emotional regulation, trauma sensitivity, chronic pain, leadership, creativity, and meaningful work. Each episode offers a mix of: ...

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Mindfulness and meditation for everyday life — and for the people who teach it. Expect grounded guided meditations, evidence‑informed tools, and candid conversations with leading voices in the field. Hosted by Sean Fargo — former Buddhist monk, founder of MindfulnessExercises.com, and a certified Search Inside Yourself instructor—each episode blends compassion, clarity, and real‑world application for practitioners, therapists, coaches, educators, and wellness professionals. What you’ll find:• Guided practices: breath awareness, body scans, self‑compassion, sleep, and nervous‑system regulation  • Teacher tools: trauma‑sensitive language, sequencing, and ethical foundations for safe, inclusive mindfulness  • Expert interviews with renowned teachers and researchers (e.g., Sharon Salzberg, Gabor Maté, Byron Katie, Rick Hanson, Ellen Langer, Judson Brewer)  • Clear takeaways you can use today—in sessions, classrooms, workplaces, and at home Updated 2-3x weekly. Follow the show, try this week’s practice, and share one insight in a review to help others discover the podcast. Explore more resources and training at MindfulnessExercises.com and the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification.

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